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To: shasta23 who wrote (1877)	4/7/1998 4:04:00 AM
From: shasta23	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

HELP! Does someone know how to express for a scan a Horizontal shift of a moving average? I use on a weekly scale a TRIX(5) and would like to SCAN for a crossover over a moving average that is shifted +2 because that's the way i set it up on my template. I know that vertical shift would be just mov(TRIX(5),w,5)*1.02 but how do i express the horizontal one??? any help is appreciated! Stefan

To: shasta23 who wrote (1877)	4/7/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

You raise a good point. But I think there are two ways of viewing it. On the one hand, you might just want Dahl to be up, but on the other, the 0 threshold might be important. Dahl is mov(c,50,simp) - ref(mov(c,50,simp),-15), and that shows when the 50-day MA crosses the 50-day MA 15 days back. It's often useful to base trades on MA crossing points or when one MA is above another. It might not be the best time to buy when Dahl is less than 0, in other words. Then again, as long as Dahl is moving up, it might not make much difference. I suppose it's like a shotgun marriage. Some might think all's well as long as the groom has a shotgun behind him and he's headed for the church. Others might want to wait for the actual moment when he says, "I do." Brooke